I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine.

Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all lying on benches in Trafalgar Square with hernias and cans of Special Brew.

We don’t see the life after life as it truly is, because in our eyes it conforms to our mechanics of nature.

The best doctor is the one you run for and can't find.

I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.

Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.